{"id":2879,"date":"2011-10-06T10:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T09:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2011-10-06T10:33:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T09:33:04","slug":"ode-to-the-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Bean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/mouse-and-de-lotz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2880\" title=\"mouse and de lotz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/mouse-and-de-lotz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/mouse-and-de-lotz.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/mouse-and-de-lotz-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An ode to the humble coffee bean, as seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mousedelotz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mouse and de Lotz<\/a>, courtesy of in-house artista\/barista Jannie. Coffee certainly inspires plenty of adulation, debate and speculation. I have a love\/hate relationship with it myself. I enjoy the taste, the experience, the culture of coffee. I appreciate the warmth, comfort and sense of community within places cropping up (such as my beloved Mouse) which are purveyors of high quality coffee and artfully prepared food. But I notice the effects of coffee in my body, with a sense of curiosity. How I become reliant and addicted to the peaks and troughs it creates in myself, in my day. And then, when there is an absence of it, the sense I have of somehow missing out. I&#8217;m amazed at the raft of scientific study which desperately tries to determine whether coffee is &#8216;good&#8217; or &#8216;bad&#8217; for you. A recent article helpfully suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-2042115\/Women-drink-4-cups-coffee-day-likely-depressed.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Women who drink four or more cups a day are less likely to be depressed.&#8217;<\/a> I suspect they&#8217;d be too busy bouncing off walls to be depressed. But this all seems beside the point. The question I&#8217;m in at present is how  does coffee make me feel? What am I choosing, for myself, when I choose to  have coffee? Who else is responsible for the decision I make, but me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ode to the humble coffee bean, as seen at Mouse and de Lotz, courtesy of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[305],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writings","tag-mouse-de-lotz","comments-open","no-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2915,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}